Torah Festival at Chabad Jewish Jupiter Center

JUPITER - Come share the joy of the Torah in a community-wide celebration of the end of the Torah reading cycle hosted by Chabad Jewish Jupiter Center 6:45 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 26 and 10 a.m. Fri., Sept. 27.

Called Simchas Torah (rejoicing with the Torah), the festive event celebrates the end and restart of the annual reading cycle of reading the Torah, the five books of Moses, and features dancing with the traditional handwritten Torah scrolls. Jewish communities throughout the world celebrate the annual custom.

All are welcome, including children and members of all Jewish and other denominations. There is no charge. Refreshments will be served.

Chabad Jewish Center of Jupiter is located at ground level at 1209 Main St. #110 in Abacoa's Town Center, across from the FAU Honors Campus and the new Scripps and Max Planck Institutes biotechnology complex.

It is customary in Jewish communities to read one portion of the Torah five chapters of the Torah during the year, beginning with Genesis and ending with Deuteronomy. The event, which is ancient and has been celebrated in festivities since Biblical times, marks the conclusion of the communal reading of all five books.

Rabbi Berel Barash, spiritual director of the Chabad Jewish Jupiter Center, notes, "Simchat Torah is when we are blessed with happiness for the entire year."

Chabad is a philosophy, a movement, and an organization. It is considered to be the most dynamic force in Jewish life today. Some 4,000 full-time emissary families direct some 3,000 Chabad Houses and Centers in the United States and around the world, many on or adjoining college and university campuses

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